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Curious ill-posedness phenomena in the composition of non-compact linear operators in Hilbert spaces

Functional Analysis 2024-05-17 v2

Abstract

We consider the composition of operators with non-closed range in Hilbert spaces and how the nature of ill-posedness is affected by their composition. Specifically, we study the \mbox{Hausdorff-,} Ces\`{a}ro-, integration operator, and their adjoints, as well as some combinations of those. For the composition of the Hausdorff- and the Ces\`{a}ro-operator, we give estimates of the decay of the corresponding singular values. As a curiosity, this provides also an example of two practically relevant non-compact operators, for which their composition is compact. Furthermore, we characterize those operators for which a composition with a non-compact operator gives a compact one.

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@article{arxiv.2401.14701,
  title  = {Curious ill-posedness phenomena in the composition of non-compact linear operators in Hilbert spaces},
  author = {Stefan Kindermann and Bernd Hofmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14701},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Section 5 (Numerics) and Section 6 (Characterization of operators that give compact composition) were added